The present interglacial, the Holocene, spans the period of the last 11,700 years. It has
sustained the growth and development of modern society. The millennial-scale decreasing …

The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

Growing scientific evidence from modern climate science is loaded with implications for the
environmental history of the Roman Empire and its successor societies. The written and …

The precipitation climatology and the underlying climate mechanisms of the eastern
Mediterranean, West Asia, and the Indian subcontinent are reviewed, with emphasis on …

The eastern Mediterranean, with its long archaeological and historical records, provides a
unique opportunity to study human responses to climate variability. We review paleoclimate …

The Mediterranean climate and its variability depend on global-scale climate patterns. Close
correlations appear when comparing Holocene palaeoenvironmental data (lake levels …

Here we identify and analyze proxy data interpreted to reflect hydro-climatic variability over
the last 10,000 years from the Mediterranean region to (1) outline millennial and multi …

There is a general consensus that climate change is an ongoing phenomenon. This will
inevitably bring about numerous environmental problems, including alterations to the …

On the basis of a multi-proxy approach and a strategy combining lacustrine and marine
records along a north–south transect, data collected in the central Mediterranean within the …

Lake Van is the fourth largest terminal lake in the world (volume 607km3, area 3570km2,
maximum depth 460m), extending for 130km WSW–ENE on the Eastern Anatolian High …